Rockingham Horse Trials

Every year mom says that we're going to buy some wellies for when we go to shows and events when it's raining. Unfortunately, we never do and we definitely needed them on Saturday when we went to Rockingham Horse Trials. It was raining on and off all day long.
Despite the mud and the rain, it was a lot of fun to watch all of the showjumping and cross country. I managed to get one brilliant picture of the horses going over a massive xc jump!

In other news, I had my ICT IGCSE exam on Wednesday. I travelled up to Coventry the night before with mother and stayed the night in a hotel. The exam was split into two parts: a one and a half hour written exam and a three hour practical exam. I found the whole thing very stressful, but I think I did okay! I should get my results in August so I'll make a new post then to tell you them.

Quick Catch-Up!

White Chipmunk!

The other week I visited The Ark. Not Noah's Ark, but the Ark Animal Rescue! The rescue had a lot of animals from Lynxes to Ponies!
By far the most entertaining animals were the meerkats. For £1, you could buy a plastic cup full of meerkat food. As soon as the meerkats heard rustling, they all came bounding over to the side of their enclosure to stand on their back legs and squeak at you! It was very adorable. I was about to pick up some food for them when I realised that the food was actually live mealworms! I used to feed my hamsters dried mealworms but I'm definitely not used to touching ones that wriggle around. Instead of picking the live mealworms up, I just tipped them into the enclosure. All of the meerkats swarmed around to try to eat as much as they could. Some of the babies would be pushed away by the bigger ones so I tried to spread out the food as evenly as I could.

In a separate field , I discovered a little black and white Shetland pony. I instantly fell in love with it! I stood by it's enclosure scratching its mane for ages until it was time for lunch.

In the centre of the rescue, there was a big enclosure with a group of Racoons in it. Some of the racoons were climbing about and hanging upside down from the roof of their enclosure but one of them was sitting washing his feet in his water bowl! He washed his front feet first then turned around to wash his back ones. It was very entertaining to watch.


Last Sunday, me, mom and dad took Maisie to the All About Dogs show in Newark. Even though she hates dogs, she was very well behaved. Normally when you go to a dog show, you come home with something that you bought for your dog like a new collar or a harness. Instead, we came home with a little wooden bridge for the garden! It is very pretty, though.
Maisie seemed to enjoy the show, even if she was a bit stressed out by all of the dogs. We'll definitely be taking her next year!

Maisie with a flower on her head!